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Georges Feydeau

1862 - 1921

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Georges-Léon-Jules-Marie Feydeau (French: [ʒɔʁʒ fɛ.do]; 8 December 1862 – 5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the Belle Époque era, remembered for his farces, written between 1886 and 1914. Feydeau was born in Paris to middle-class parents and raised in an artistic and literary environment. From an early age he was fascinated by the theatre, and as a child he wrote plays and organised his schoolfellows into a drama group. In his teens he wrote comic monologues and moved on to writing longer plays. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georges Feydeau is the 1,305th most popular writer (up from 1,434th in 2019), the 1,487th most popular biography from France (up from 1,665th in 2019) and the 189th most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Georges Feydeau ranks 1,305 out of 7,302. Before him are Peter Altenberg, Carson McCullers, Reinaldo Arenas, Andrei Platonov, Rudolf Erich Raspe, and Maurice Barrès. After him are Wilhelm Müller, Constantijn Huygens, James Ellroy, Arthur Hailey, Quintus Fabius Pictor, and Hieronymus of Cardia.

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Among people born in 1862, Georges Feydeau ranks 35. Before him are Edith Wharton, Mori Ōgai, Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Ugyen Wangchuck, Loie Fuller, and Maurice Barrès. After him are Henry McMahon, Victor, Prince Napoléon, Mary Kingsley, Cosmo Duff-Gordon, Anton Ažbe, and Vito Cascio Ferro. Among people deceased in 1921, Georges Feydeau ranks 31. Before him are William II of Württemberg, Ignác Goldziher, Julius Richard Petri, Hermann Schwarz, Karl von Bülow, and Oscar Montelius. After him are Ivan Vazov, Yan Fu, Robert de Montesquiou, Fernand Khnopff, Hara Takashi, and Charles Joseph Bonaparte.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Feydeau ranks 1,487 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Chacornac (1823), Louis Jourdan (1921), Jean-Luc Nancy (1940), Maurice Barrès (1862), Charles Alexandre de Calonne (1734), and Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698). After him are Michel Richard Delalande (1657), Austen Henry Layard (1817), John V, Duke of Brittany (1389), Henry I, Count of Champagne (1127), Duchenne de Boulogne (1806), and Jacqueline Boyer (1941).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Georges Feydeau ranks 189. Before him are Madame d'Aulnoy (1651), Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552), Pierre Larousse (1817), Blaise de Vigenère (1523), Jean Giono (1895), and Maurice Barrès (1862). After him are Henri Murger (1822), Paul Scarron (1610), Honoré d'Urfé (1567), Robert de Montesquiou (1855), Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711), and Jean Chapelain (1595).

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